Glauron by Frozen Fractal
Glauron, son of Glaurung, First of the Winged Dragons, has broken free of his five hundred year imprisonment, and he is not happy! Help him avenge himself and wreak havoc among the innocent citizens, but be careful, they are armed!
An HTML5 game made with Crafty.js and Howler.js. Should work in at least Chrome, Chromium and Firefox.
Post-compo compatibility fixes to make it work in Firefox:
- innerText is nonstandard, use textContent instead.
- Convert audio to ogg and mp3 because wav doesn't work.
- Lay out ground sprites horizontally in the sprite sheet so they don't "bleed".
- Add a separate upside-down wing sprite because negative sprite heights throw IndexSizeError.
An HTML5 game made with Crafty.js and Howler.js. Should work in at least Chrome, Chromium and Firefox.
Post-compo compatibility fixes to make it work in Firefox:
- innerText is nonstandard, use textContent instead.
- Convert audio to ogg and mp3 because wav doesn't work.
- Lay out ground sprites horizontally in the sprite sheet so they don't "bleed".
- Add a separate upside-down wing sprite because negative sprite heights throw IndexSizeError.
Ratings
| Coolness | 50% | 3 |
| Overall | 3.86 | 58 |
| Audio | 2.82 | 422 |
| Fun | 3.80 | 67 |
| Graphics | 4.06 | 82 |
| Humor | 2.37 | 613 |
| Innovation | 3.34 | 253 |
| Mood | 3.62 | 115 |
| Theme | 3.89 | 149 |
Pros:
-Excellent graphics
-Really polished
-Nice combination of mechanics
Cons:
-Kinda difficult to control the dragon
game becomes laggy with lots of fire/smoke on screen
The game did get a little choppy on my laptop when there was a lot going on, I made it to level 7 - twice. At that point I mostly had to play by my sense of guess to time the wing flaps.
I never did understand what the white arrows did differently from black arrows. I did like the multipliers you could get for hitting multiple things in one shot, and getting multiple hearts for hitting churches/steeples seemed to always come when I needed them most.
On my final attempt, I got 1588 points, and I fell right before Level 5! A great game.
Was there audio? I didn't hear anything, but I see you want to be rated in it.
Nice one. ;)
The dragon is a bit tricky to control.
The white arrows are immune to fire, so they're a lot harder to defend against.
Yes, there should be audio. What's your browser and platform? Do the demos at http://goldfirestudios.com/blog/104/howler.js-Modern-Web-Audio-Javascript-Library work for you?
I would recommend playing while listening to this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHF_bIjIPAE
Nice work!
Very nice game! Pretty without a doubt, interesting in its mechanics (the balance staying close to the ground/flying high), it's great :)
Also loved your post-mortem writeup. Keep it up!
Keep up the good work!